yearbook
| January | Fundraiser for Rashid.
Rashid is 6 years old. He lives in a suburb of Freetown. With homework he has inhaled the cap of a pen, which has now been set in the lungs for a year. A lung is damaged by breathing and therefore only limited. With donations of 10,000 euros Rashid to be operated at the University Hospital Essen. |
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| April | Revision of our website.
Rashid is on the way from Ghana to Germany. From the airport it is brought to accommodate the University Hospital of Essen, where the life-saving operation is waiting for him. |
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| January | Our founding member Osman Turay is back from Sierra Leone, and has brought photographic documents of the current moment there projects.The fountain of the Home of Hope has now sunk to 40 yards. After the end of the rainy season a few meters will be added so that the water supply remains secure even in the dry season to complete.
The school expansion and construction of houses for the Ebola orphans also progressing well. The excavation is done, the foundations have been laid and the structures are already taking shape. It is planned that the shells at the next visit of our Board in November this year have already been completed. |
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| April-August | The well has now been put into operation to the delight of the Home of Hope children.The training center 13 young people learn the Näher- or baker. The first project the sewing was the production of "uniforms" for the AZUBI's. |
| September | Potato Festival on City Hall Square in very good weather on September 3.
On September 28, the Rotary Club Lippe-Issel presented in the country Voshövel an evening with Justus Frantz. The proceeds of this event came to us in the amount of EUR 5,000 initially to the best for the creation of two classrooms within the school extension. |
| October | Cancellation of the major donation GRAV island about 100,000 to 150,000 euros. GRAV island would continue to drive their own wells construction projects instead. Unfortunate for our project, but certainly very helpful for the people who are served by the well construction projects GRAV island with fresh water.Travel arrangements for another visit in Sierra Leone. |
| November | November 14 to 30: Osman Turay, Dieter Schmitt, John Nover and Gudrun Gerwien travel to Sierra Leone and are accompanied by the November 17 to 27 from I-Dear camera team from Bochum. The recordings created there are treated to a documentation of our work on site. I-Dear wants to start a project in the wake of this document, which is to bring in over three years donations totaling 180,000 euros. |
| December | Participation in the "good old Christmas" in Schermbeck with the performance of a musical, sketches of John Nover and the offer of liqueurs and jams. |
| January | Loading and shipping of the container for the interior design of the training center. |
| February | Visit our tour group in Sierra Leone. Negotiations with the government and local authorities to clarify the conditions for the construction of Ebola orphanages. Receiving and transferring the containerized goods to training center. Clarification of current issues at the Home of Hope. |
| March | Press conference on the visit to Sierra Leone. Our Mayor Mike Rexforth takes over the sponsorship for two Ebola orphans and underlines the occasion of our press conference, in a very emotional call the need people in their home directly to help. He recalls the bet and the associated project for the Ebola orphans. |
| April | The Grav Island donates EUR 10,000.00 as part of the campaign "We help children worldwide." Dr. Holl and his colleagues donate 750 Euro mark its 25th anniversary operating. |
| May |
Preparation of the gala "Best of GAGU" on the occasion of the 10th anniversary club. |
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| August | Further expansion of our department "live together". Opening of another office space on the central road. |
| September | Opening of the training center in Sierra Leone in the presence of regional dignitaries. |
| October | Preparing our gala for the 10th anniversary of the GAGU dwarf eV |
| November | 10Jahres gala with pledges in five and six figures. |
| December | Placing bets with Mayor Mike Rexforth on the occasion of the "good old Christmas" on Schermbeck Mittelstraße. |
| January | Action plan for the current year |
| February | Updating the web page. Preparation of the Spring Gala 2015Grünkohlessen with heart in Hohen Ufer |
| March | AGM 2015 Spring Gala 2015 |
| April | Gleaning Spring Gala |
| May |
Planning of the 10-year celebration. |
| June |
Preparing the family day. |
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| August | Außerordenliche general meeting on 05.08.2015 preparations for the family day. |
| September | Establishment and organization of the contact point for the GAGU department LIVING TOGETHER on the central street 34 in Schermbeck. Design and implementation of Web sites LIVING TOGETHER. Preparation of the opening event. |
| October | Opening event for LIVING TOGETHER on the central street 34 in Schermbeck, with the participation of the press, representatives of the community and the People's Bank. Presentation of the business activities of LIVING TOGETHER through Gudrun Gerwien and Heinrich Brinkmann, CEO of LIVING TOGETHER. Placing a bet with Mayor Mike Rexforth than 50,000 euros on the occasion of our Halloween events in the town square. |
| November | Preparation and organization of the good old Christmas on the central street in Schermbeck. |
| December | Implementation of the Christmas events "Good Old Christmas". Two-fold performance of excerpts from the "spirit of Christmas". |
| January | Action plan for the current yearAssistance in preparing the birthday party of a lawyer Stephan Proff. |
| February | Preparations for Rosenmontagszug Raesfeld.Attorney Stephan Proff celebrating his 50th birthday. His birthday wish to his guests: a donation for the GAGU dwarf aid. And so are 12,000 euros under the motto "donations instead of gifts" come together. |
| March | Participation to improve with the aim of awareness about Schermbeck also on Raesfelder Rosenmontagszug.Annual General Meeting of the Association |
| April | The Rotary Club of Lippe-Issel donates 750 € for the continued construction of the training center in Sierra Leone at the initiative of Stephan Proff and Guenther Beck. Andrea and Stefan Laschinger from Dorsten donate the Mercedes used in their roofing company Flatbed 308D for transports from Freetown to the Home of Hope. |
| May | Travel booking for Sierra Leone. Labor issues there are the construction of the training center and the acquisition of the planned SL container. |
| June | Planning of Sierra Leone visit and the container shipment for July. |
| July | Call for help from Sierra Leone. Employees of our children's home are seriously ill. Establishment of our medical help program. |
| August | Schermbecker citizens donate at the ALS Challenge to the GAGU dwarf aid. A serious car accident with our vehicle in Sierra Leone. Injured employees and children. Total loss of the vehicle. |
| September | Ebola stops relief supplies. We need to reset our visit to SL and the scheduled delivery of the container. Work on our training center go further still. |
| October | Life reported in detail about us and the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone. |
| November | Samples for our campaign "Good Old Christmas". The WDR reported on the occasion of the Ebola outbreak on our work in Sierra Leone. |
| December | Action "Good Old Christmas" with three performances of the "spirit of Christmas" on 13.12.2014 on the central street in Schermbeck. |
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January |
Raising campaign and preparing shipping containers for Sierra Leone. requires bicycles to commute to school and home furnishings for the Home of Hope. |
| February | Raising campaign and preparing shipping containers for Sierra Leone. requires bicycles to commute to school and home furnishings for the Home of Hope. |
| March | Continuation of the collection campaign for Sierra Leone.Donation of restaurants High Uferaus from the proceeds of green cabbage meal.
Press conference on the status of the project Home of Hope in the restaurant High shore. Follow-on BMZ small project proposal to extend the home of hope to a bakery, sewing and ambulance as well as additional spaces at the nearby school. |
| April | Annual General Meeting: Report of the Board, election of new auditor.Transfer of paper organization of the club on a PC solution.
Visit the Buddy Baer - exhibition in Gladbeck. |
| May | Completion of the collection campaign for Sierra Leone |
| June | Loading and shipping a donation container with relief supplies for Sierra Leone. |
| July | Visit to Sierra Leone: reform of the on-site organization. Discharge of the donation container and handing over of donations. Conclusion of another contract for health care for the godchildren and the Home of Hope staff. Purchase of land for the planned training center. |
| August | Visit to Sierra Leone: reform of the on-site organization. Discharge of the donation container and handing over of donations. Conclusion of another contract for health care for the godchildren and the Home of Hope staff. Purchase of land for the planned training center. |
| September | Photo, video and press documentation of the trip to Sierra Leone. Occasion donation and adoption of a child sponsorship of the 90th birthday of Mrs. Bertram. |
| October | Preparation Advent Gala "A Christmas Carol" and the action "good old Christmas" |
| November | Appearance at the autumn concert of the miners' choir Moers. Donation of 1,000 € of Moers audience.Donation of 178 euros of vocational colleges Gladbeck.
Preparation for Advent Gala "A Christmas Carol" and premiered on 30.11.2013 |
| December | Second performance of Advent Gala "A Christmas Carol" and participation in the action "good old Christmas" |
| January | Conception for the Christmas village 2012th |
| February | Official opening and inauguration of the home of hope in Sierra Leone by the wife of the Vice President Mrs. Sam Samura and the Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children's Affairs Madam Rosaline Oya Sankoh. |
| March | Annual General Meeting and election of the board. INJOY, Dorsten held on Saturday, March 31, 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., a four-hour marathon on the exercise bike in our favor, the gymnastics club Damm announces a donation of 1,000 euros and the class 2a of Maximilian Kolbe School Schermbeck donates 150 euros. |
| April | Preparation of the Christmas events. 10 000 € of Schermbecker entrepreneur Stephan Stender supports GAGU dwarf aid and the project home of hope in Sierra Leone and the action donations marathon of Injoy Dorsten hands over a donation of just € 1151.50. |
| May | Preparation of the Christmas events. |
| June | Preparation of the Christmas events. |
| July | Preparation of the Christmas events. |
| August | Preparation of the Christmas events.Planning and booking the trip to Sierra Leone. |
| September | 300 euro donation of vocational colleges Gladbeck is passed by Florian Horstmann;
Raise the club Salone - Hilfe eV for Sierra Leone gave us beds from a donation of Ricam hospice leave and Gudrun Gerwien, Dieter Schmitt and John Nover visit the home of hope in Sierra Leone. |
| October | Gudrun Gerwien, Dieter Schmitt and John Nover have returned with good news from Sierra Leone. Our house is in very good condition and, more importantly, the children are very well looked after. This is mainly the merit of Nancy, the new partner of our project leader Lamin Bangura. |
| November | Preparing Christmas Event |
| December | Christmas event
Raising campaign and preparing shipping containers for Sierra Leone. requires bicycles to commute to school and home furnishings for the Home of Hope. |
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January |
Good news reached us at the beginning of Better Place. In February 2010, we presented our project there. On Friday, 01.07.2011 now entered into a donation of 3,500 euros a to our account. The placed last year on his way container has arrived in Freetown. Gudrun Gerwien, Dieter Schmitt and John Nover are on 21/01/2011 traveled there at the container to Sierra Leone to take delivery. |
| February | Only after intervention of the Vice President of the container with building materials and furnishings was finally discharged. Meanwhile, the work of the final stage of construction of the home of hope are again under way and we hope that everything will be finished shortly. Also this year, the restaurant hosted Gahlener High banks of the now traditional action "grünkohlessen with heart". 50% of the resulting proceeds go to our charity. |
| March | Release of our project report with the documentation of the work at home of hope. By the late release of the container the construction delay. |
| April | Planning of a guest house and an ambulance on the grounds of the home of hope. |
| May | On 07/05/2011 the Committee of Sierra Leoneans NRW celebrated the independence of Sierra Leone, together with their German Embassy in Sierra Leone active aid organizations. Gudrun Gerwien presented the GAGU dwarf aid and the project home of hope to the participants. Contacting Dr. Steel Cap Anamur on the occasion of his presentation on the establishment of a children's hospital in Freetown and other activities of his organization in Sierra Leone. |
| June | Preparing the fall gala. Program design and selection of the performers. Correspondence with clinic operators in Sierra Leone as part of the planning for the ambulance home of hope. |
| July | The programming of the Fall Gala is now complete and the invitation of the sponsors. Construction on the home of hope have made visible progress. The exterior painting is complete, the interior work is nearing completion. Current pictures, see the library. |
| August | Preparations and rehearsals begin for the autumn 2011. Gala planning and booking the trip to Sierra Leone in October / November 2011 |
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| October | Fall Gala at three days of the event. Visit our project manager Lamin Bangura from Sierra Leone in Schermbeck. Check out our tour group along with Mr. Bangura of Sierra Leone and execution of residual and repairs to the home of hope. |
| November | Entry of the first 12 children with two hot women in the home of hope. Outpatient primary care and treatment ill patients at the expense of GAGU dwarf aid in the hospital. Return of the group from Sierra Leone. Structure of the Christmas village in the town square in Schermbeck and opening ceremony on 26 November. |
| December | Care of the Christmas village. |
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January |
Hibernation, the carnival in Ossenberg in the six friends. |
| February | Preparation of the annual general meeting. Placing our project Home of Hope in the portal Betterplace.org |
| March | 03 March: Annual General Meeting on March 15: Dieter Schmitt, John Nover and Gudrun Gerwien flying to Sierra Leone. - discuss and plan the interior of the Home of Hope and - Selection of children |
| April | April 14, 20:00 pm: information evening of GAGU dwarf Help Gudrun Gerwien, Dieter Schmitt and John Nover report in Schermbeck Hotel Haus Hecheltjen on their visit to Sierra Leone. |
| May | Assortment of equipment for the Home of Hope and preparation of container shipment. |
| June | Summer street festival on 26 and 27 June 2010 in Schermbeck |
| July | Presentation of GAGU dwarf assistance wmtv-Bocholt. The article can be found in the archive. |
| August | Africa Day with a colorful program of African food and kids having fun on 14 August 2010 in Schermbeck. Shipping the container with building materials and furnishings for the home of hope in Sierra Leone. |
| September | Preparation and rehearsals for the theater in October. Production of the second edition of our donations DVD. Preparations for the visit to the home of hope in December / January. |
| October | Scenery construction, theatrical performance and Wetteinlösung with the farce "The Seventh Heaven" in the Town Hall meeting center Schermbeck on 23 and 24 October. |
| November | Preparation, construction, opening and maintenance of the Christmas village in 2010 on 27 and 28 November. Dispatch of the container with building materials and interior decoration of the home of hope. |
| December | Care of the Christmas village on weekends from 4 to 19 December. Visit the home of hope in Sierra Leone. Accompanying the final stages of construction and preparation of the entry of the orphans. |
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January |
We hibernate and recover from the actions in December 2008 |
| February | Trip to Sierra Leone and purchase of the land for the children's house "Home of Hope" |
| March | Preparation of events to bet placement |
| April | Placing bets - we have lost, gaining as much |
| May | Strawberry cake-eating with the mayor - Tasty's it, jovial's it |
| June | The decision has been made. Gudrun Gerwien, Dieter Schmitt and John Nover travel in July to Sierra Leone. The flight is booked. Tasks to be performed: Urgent regulatory affairs, opening a bank account and the foundation stone of the Home of Hope. |
| July | The admission as an NGO (nongovernmental organization) in Sierra Leone has been reached and the groundbreaking ceremony for the Home of Hope did. |
| August | Preparation of the second autumn Gala |
| September | We rehearse for the second Fall Gala |
| October | Fall Gala at the Town Hall Meeting Center |
| November | Preparations for the Christmas market in Schermbeck opening of the Christmas market on Saturday, November 28, 2009: 11:00 to 19:00 Sunday, November 29, 2009: 16:00 to 19:00 |
| December | Christmas market Schermbeck: Saturday, December 05, 2009: 17:00 to 19:30 Sunday, December 06, 2009: 16:00 to 19:00 Saturday, December 12, 2009: 17:00 to 19:30 Sunday, December 13, 2009: 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, 19 . December 2009: 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, December 20, 2009: 16:00 to 19:00 |